Raven's Many Gifts: Native Art of the Northwest Coast

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts presents a new installation drawn from the museum's Native American art collection - the oldest, most comprehensive ongoing collection of its kind in the Western hemisphere. Raven's Many Gifts: Native Art of the Northwest Coast celebrates the rich artistic legacy of Native artists along the Pacific Northwest Coast while exploring dynamic relationships among humans, animals, ancestors and supernatural beings. Featuring nearly 30 works from the 19th century to present day, the installation includes superlative examples of works on paper, wood carvings, textiles, films, music and jewelry. 

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Dance mask  -  Bella Bella, Northwest Coast

Image courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum

Tribal Art Auction - Pierre Bergé & Associés, April 2

Pierre Bergé & Associés will present a sale of Oceanic, African, and Native American antiquities in Paris on April 2. A marvelous array of Pacific weaponry and ritual carving from the collection of Claude Meyer will be offered to the bidders alongside a range of fine African carvings and American Indian works spanning from the Pacific Northwest to the Woodlands.


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Avian grave post figures  -  Sakalava, Madagascar

Mask  -  British Columbia or Alaska

Halibut hook  -  Tlingit or Haida, British Columbia

Mask, apouema  -  Kanak, New Caledonia

Ceremonial headdress  -  Malaita, Vanuatu

Standing figure  -  Sakalava, Madagascar

Canoe prow  -  Maori, New Zealand

Information and images courtesy of Pierre Bergé & Associés

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art at the Met

Currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Coe Collection of American Indian Art features works given and bequeathed to the Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Comprised of some forty objects made in natural materials from stone to animal hide, the installation presents a wide range of Native American objects that come from different times and places, and from numerous distinct peoples.

For more information, visit the exhibition's official website.

Leadership shirt  -  Plains Indian  -  19th century

Basket with feathers  -  Pomo, California  -  Early 20th century

Mosquito mask  - Tlingit, Alaska  -  19th century

Mask depicting a noblewoman  -  Richard Davidson (Haida, b. 1946), British Columbia

Information and images courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art